Re: Orca Installation problem

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Luke:

The main reason we suggest --prefix=/usr is that sys.path in Python  
doesn't include /usr/local.  Here's output from the python  
interpreter on my FC4 box:

>>> print sys.path
['', '/usr/lib/python24.zip', '/usr/lib/python2.4', '/usr/lib/ 
python2.4/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib/python2.4/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/ 
python2.4/lib-dynload', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages', '/usr/lib/ 
python2.4/site-packages/Numeric', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ 
gtk-2.0']

Plus, there are no *.pth files that get us to /usr/local.  As a  
result, I think the python interpreter will have a tough time finding  
the orca package unless you do something such as set the PYTHONPATH  
environment variable or set up a *.pth file.  We probably could work  
around this, though, by modifying Orca's copy of sys.path on startup.

Will

PS - Although http://docs.python.org/tut/node8.html says python on  
Unix typically looks in /usr/local/lib/python, I've not found this to  
be the case.

On Mar 29, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Luke Yelavich wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:11:20AM EST, Mike Pedersen wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> > > Orca 0.2.2 tar ball
> > > I didn't use any command options when I did the ./configure
> > > command because I've never used options with that command
> > > when compiling anything. I'm not sure what options to use or why.
> > This might be  your problem.  Your configure should look like ./ 
> > configure
> > --prefix=/usr
>
> YOu really don't need to specify any options. I have orca install  
> itself
> into /usr/local, as /usr is package managed, and should I need to
> change/remove orca files, I would rather have it installed somewhere
> where it won't get trod on/get in the way of other files. It is also
> easier to remove by hand then if something were to happen with my  
> build
> source such that it couldn't remove anything.
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